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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 74

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trength of the hooks that are often used for supporting boilers. Wealso gave the working loads that such hooks can bear, according to the acceptedmethod of calculating the strengths of such appliances, without the material ofwhich they are composed being anywhere strained beyond its elastic limit.… … out at the time, although actualdata for comparing the computedstrengths with those calculated bytheory were not then at hand. Mr.John L. Bacon has since madesome experiments on this subject,which are to be presented at theSaratoga meeting of the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers.He has…

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